Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1887-11-22
INTERESTING NEWS
From the workshops. Mills and Factorie
In the City and Vicinity.

From the workshops, mills ana rhcpories
In the City and Vicinity.
The BenWood nail factory shut down
yesterday, as the natural gas company in
formed the manufacturers that they could
not furnish them sufficient supply ofgas
in the day time. The men were asked to
work at night, and yesterday afternoon the
nailers held q meeting and decided not to
do 80, informing the company that some
fuel should be used that could be relied
upon.
The answer they got was work at night
or not at all, ;" and as the Dailers have de-
cided, it is probable the factory will shut
down unless they reconsider their action
or the company decides to return to the use
of coal So runs the gas away.
The Riverside tube works were idle in
all departments yesterday.
The Wheeling plant, which has been
closed down since Saturday, will resume
operations this evening
Furnace No. 2 of the Junction Iron
Works, which was remodeled and put in
operation about one year ago, is still doing
splondidly, keeping up her average of l25
tons per each "a hours This is as large
and as fine blast furnace as there is in the
Ohio Valley. Furnace No. /, which was
remOdeled and built after the old pattern
some two years ago, and has only been
blown one fire, is at present being remod-
eled, looking to the erection of q furnace
similar to new No. 2, with all modern i'm
provements and appliances for the manu-
tacture of Bessemer pig.
The Bellaire goblet works was off yester-
day on account of breakage in natural gas
pipes connecting the works
The Steubenville Herald says concerning
the MiDgO strike: The long continued
controversy at the function Iron Works,
Mingo, is as far off from settlement now as
it ever was, and the prospects are, if any
thing, more discouraging When the
Amalgamated Association scale was pre-
scented previous to the 30th of last June,
the heaters asked for So cents per ton for
hot steel and 20 cents for cold, the stand
ard price for heating. The company
would only pay So cents and furnish an
extra man, and in consequence the nail
factory at Mingo shut down on that date
and not a nail has been cut since. There
is also matter of dispute between the
company and the nailers in the
matter Of paying for Self-feederS.
The nailers demand that only a
reduction of ten per cent. be made on
nails cut by selffeeders, while the juno
ton Company and the other factories in
the Wheeling district say that twelve and
halt per cent. must be deducted from the
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tories out of thirty i'll the West which are
running at the Amalgamatcd scale which
will expire in next June. Neither the COM
pany nor the men have asked for confer.
ence to adiudicate the matter, and the
matter is far off from settlement, both par
ties apparently being indifferent. The
Brilliant if also shut down, owing the COM
plications growing out OF the MiDgo trouble,
and there is no prospect of its starting up
before spring. To make matters worse
now, there is liability of the steel
plant at Mingo shutting down on D..
Cember 3lst. Under the present regua-
tons the Amalgamated Association claim
the right to say that none of the product
shall 90 to the nail factories where there
are matters at issue between the companies
aud men, and it was on this account that
the Spaulding works was compelled ia
shut down. The Jefferson is also supplied
with the steel from Mingo, but as there is
10 organization there, no question has
arisen as to the distribution at that point,
Bot is said that when the steel workers
scale is presented before January LIST, the
Laughlin and Junction Steel Company
will insist upon the right TO distribute
their product wherever they see fit, and
will ask the men TO make steel to be piled
upon the steel works property.